religion correspondent lauren green is here. >> good morning, good morning, this is the long goodbye, and you saw the blessing of the rosary here, which is what the pope left when i was in. >> show us what you have. it's a rosary and the people are at the fountains for the final blessing and people bring a lot of things to the square for him to bless. >> baby, olive oil. and rosary. this was blessed by pope benedict xvi. and that's the part of the long-term and the short-term in hoves and the resigning changed everything. >> tucker: we've read again and again, hundreds of years before the pope resigned from office. does it change the office? >> we don't know, that's the long-term effect. will people still view the papacy as infallible, is this sort of divine right. all of these things are going to swirl around the papacy. we don't know those long-term effects. what we do know is that on thursday, at 8 p.m., when the pope leaves office and the papal seat is vacant and the cardin cardinal college will take care of the nuts and bolts, keep the lights on and the water running and all of t